I think Bishop Wright would make a fine husband, and I should have Mattie Wright to play with every day." "And you would leave me ?" "Why, that's so, Daddy! I never thought--of course I can't leave my little sorry father--not yet.

I forgot that.

I couldn't leave you.

Now tell me about my mother again." He told her the story she already knew so well--how beautiful her mother was, the look of her hair and eyes, her slenderness, the music of her voice, and the gladness of her laugh.
"And won't she be glad to see us again.

And she will come before Christina and Lorena, because she was your first wife, wasn't she ?" He was awake all night in a fever of doubt and rebellion.